Trying to be love

For a while now I've had a goal to embody love to the extent I've seen some people embody it. Mostly certain yoga teachers have been my inspiration, as well as some beautiful people I've been blessed to meet lately.
I know I am capable of this; however, a thought kept entering my mind during yoga class today (after setting my intention for the class to be embodying love)... The thought is maybe more of a question... Or questions!

Can we truly embody love if we have negativity around us in our daily lives?

Do we absorb negativity from external sources (humans, media, etc) unwillingly or perhaps unwittingly?

Is there a way to control this absorption?

Or... Do we need to distance ourselves from negative energy entirely in order to fully become love?

I am mostly concerned about a person in my life who i know brings a lot of negative energy my way, but whom I love very much.

Should I instead shower the person with affection and love?

If that doesn't work, how can I tell if it's time to cut him/her out?

 

I don't even know what you mean by trying to be love. Love doesn't even exist, it's a verbal abstraction of psycho-physiological mechanisms. Your assumption of a scale of 'being' ranging from negative energy to a positive phenomenon called 'love' seems like fantasy.

 

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So, should I tough it out and be stronger for overcoming this person's negativity? Or should I end our relationship and surround myself with positive people?

 

A good point that was brought up in a book I have read several times was that "how can I say 'I love you' when there are commercials that say 'Cars love shell gasoline'." To use the word so loosely is to dilute it and to take away it's meaning. I have taken this to heart in the last week and only using the word "love" when it is warranted.

 

Have you ever met someone who almost always wears a proud smile? Someone who is giddy all the time? Someone who feels others emotions so deeply that they would give anything they could to make a stranger feel loved? Someone so pure and good that when you look at them or receive a hug from them you feel a calming sensation like nothing you've experienced before. Someone who gives you hope for the human race? Some people would refer to such beings as enlightened. I refer to them as being love. They are pure love.... Love oozes from their pours. they breathe love and have become love.

If you haven't met someone like this yet, some day I hope you will!

But really, you'd have to believe love exists. I'm sad that you don't believe that it does. We are all connected. I'll send some love your way. I hope it reaches you.

 

That is a good point. Sometimes I feel like I'd be better off without people who love me like cars love shell gasoline.

 

Isn't that more about your love for them, rather than their love? I don't think you can tell what someone is feeling, people are so good at acting.

I bet that feels good to you. If it didn't, you wouldn't say that.

 

You know, I don't know of it is my love for the person or their love. Maybe both? We are all one after all.

 

You would most likely be interested in exploring bhakti yoga

 

Thank you! I will definitely check it out soon.

 

In the Koran the opening passage is from a prophet that was from a society that was filled with oppressive rule, punishment etc. Through the ages nearly all prophets "get away" from society even if it is for small periods of time to digest and communicate with themselves if negative and change is to occur.

Love is NOT an abstraction of the pscho active mind, I belive. Edgar Cayce the great psychic believed that we should consider "Love" as it is, which is a spiritual entity.

I was greated by love and so may you in one way or another. Love is Jesus Christ many believe as well.

Love, is the only teacher. Hate/anger is/are incarnations that humans have evolved from love in a negative way, like the way cells in the human body develop cancerous cells that multiply because there are too many free radicals, so too can human develop anger and hate from love so that it is "free radical" of love. Many people love to hate, it is self gratifying which is maybe what they need.

If you want to help you should accept love into your life and try to not cooperate with negative emotions or any consumptions of negativity.

Edgar Cayce also said that perhaps the best way to be love is to notice awareness. Awareness of both your external world and your internal world and that get this "they both are the same" (oneness) In order to be one though you need to be aware of both.

I know what you mean about negativity. As long as you follow a path of work according to parts of the bible and enjoy the fruits of your labor you maybe able to enjoy life. I can recite if interested, I have it bookmarked. Life isn't always about being happy.

 

So if somebody feels good about complimenting somebody or doing something for someone, what would you call that feeling? what words do you use to represent love? You might not call it love, but you know it exists, so im curious to what word you replace love with.

 

why would you need to replace the word love, if its not love its some other word. If its not love maybe its adoration would probably be a close second.

 

I would call it love, but it's still a selfish act. My opinion is that is just about all that exists for us. My idea of love would be helping someone we don't care about, with self-sacrifice and for no reward emotional or material, which I don't see happening. The only way I can see it being possible is if we were interacting with the world as if we were part of it, not two parts.

 

Walsh, in my opinion helping those that we love is the ultimate love, why would you help someone you don't know or care about?
Even the bible says we should work for the fruit of our labors. Helping someone we don't know is blind love. Blind love is a horrible thing!

 

Well, I definitely disagree with you there if you are insinuating that helping someone you don't really know is a "horrible thing". Maybe I misinterpreted that.

Great thread, by the way.

 

Why? I thought love was self-sacrifice. Helping those you are closest to is no self-sacrifice because you are doing it for yourself. There's no difference between the motivation for robbing a bank and buying your girlfriend a rose. Both are selfish acts.

That the bible neglects to mention this is probably the reason for it causing so much misery in the world.

 

Thats an interestiing way of looking at it, but were not acting just for ourselves when we help someone else out. Are you saying you just dont like the reward system set up for helping people? that its wrong to feel rewarded for helping people? I think its set up perfectly for the human race, we are selfish by nature, and many people show acts of love for selfish reasons, but in the end you feel good because you helped someone, and that person feels good because you helped them. done deal, everyones feelin' fine!:2thumbsup:

 

By the way, you cant be love....this is Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzkAwCs5bnI&feature=BFa&list=PLC2A941E1CABE8C04&lf=plpp_video"]Love - The Red Telephone - YouTube :2thumbsup: